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31st March 2025

Navigating Violence and Negotiating Order in the Somalia–Ken...

Patta Scott-Villiers, Alastair Scott-Villiers, Action for Social and Economic Progress (ASEP)
Communities along the Somalia–Kenya border navigate a landscape of war. Over decades of conflict – including civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurge...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Event

31st March 2025

Beyond the State: Community self-governance in the borderlan...

Join us on 31 March 2025 at the event highlighted key lessons from a community-led process involving 50 Somali participants from diverse backgrounds.
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Borderlands

Blog

19th March 2025

XCEPT local research legacy: Xogta xuduudaha (knowledge of t...

Sahra Ahmed Koshin
Sahra Ahmed Koshin reflects on her transformative experience as a local researcher with the XCEPT programme, exploring the role of Somali women in cro...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Ethiopia Migration Conflict Economies Borderlands

Research report

29th July 2024

Transborder mobile money platforms in the greater Somali eco...

Ahmed M Musa
This XCEPT research paper from Rift Valley Institute explores the informal transborder movement of goods and people in the ‘greater Somali economic sp...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Ethiopia Transnational Flows Governance Conflict Economies Borderlands

Research report

31st October 2023

Navigating trade controls: The political economy of checkpoi...

Jamal Mohammed
Checkpoints have implications for different forms of trade that exist in Jubaland state and between Jubaland and Kenya. This report explores the polit...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Conflict Economies

Research report

31st October 2023

Paying the price: The political economy of checkpoints in So...

Peer Schouten
This report explores the political economy of checkpoints in Somalia: What drives their formation? What impacts do they have on trade, society and pol...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Transnational Flows Borderlands

Research report

31st October 2023

Brokering trade routes: The political economy of checkpoints...

Abdirahman Ali
The Baidoa corridor is a transport and trade route that connects Somalia’s coastal capital, Mogadishu, to Kenya via the border towns of Bula Hawa and ...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Transnational Flows

Podcast

1st September 2023

Peripheral Vision: Localising Conflict Responses in Conteste...

Nathan Shea, Tasnia Khandaker, Armenak Tokmajyan, Abdirahman Edle Ali
How does the global push for aid localisation apply to the research sector? In this podcast, The Asia Foundation, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle ...
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Syria South Asia and Southeast Asia Somalia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Bangladesh Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Newsletter

15th December 2021

Peripheral Vision: Views from the Borderlands – Fall 2021

Joint bulletin from The Asia Foundation, Rift Valley Institute, and Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center about recent research and activities.
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South Asia and Southeast Asia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Violent and Peaceful Behaviour Transnational Flows Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Research report

30th November 2021

Trade, Taxes and Tensions in the Somali Borderlands

Tobias Hagmann
Trade, Taxes and Tensions explores how cross-border trade affects both cooperation and conflict between the states and state-like entities in the Soma...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Horn of Africa Transnational Flows Conflict Dynamics Borderlands

Research report

24th November 2021

Contested Commerce: Revenue and State-Making in the Galkayo ...

Khalif Abdirahman
Contested Commerce examines how continuing political conflicts and the fragile security situation affect cross-border trade in the city of Galkayo, cl...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Borderlands

Research report

3rd October 2021

Regularly Irregular: Varieties of Informal Trading in the Et...

Mustafe M. Abdi
Regularly Irregular focuses on the Gaashamo corridor—a series of small border crossings between Ethiopia and Somaliland—to analyze the everyday govern...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Conflict Economies Borderlands

Research report

1st October 2021

Lasanod: City at the Margins. The Politics of Borderland Tra...

Ahmed M. Musa
Lasanod: City at the Margins examines the economic and political consequences of this ambiguous borderland status, which has led to new forms of reven...
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Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Governance Conflict Economies Borderlands

Research report

2nd March 2021

Chokepoints and Corridors: Ordering Maritime Space in the We...

Jatin Dua
In the Horn of Africa there is a dynamic interplay between land and sea that has shaped political, economic and social relationships.
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Yemen Somalia Middle East and North Africa Horn of Africa and the Sahel Transnational Flows

Event

19th October 2020

Understanding and Visualising the ‘Transnational Everyday’ i...

Enrico Ille, Freddie Carver, Joseph Diing, Sahra Ahmed Koshin, Ahmed Shire, Pete Chonka
This is an interactive report on how individuals move and interact across borders and transnationally. The report summarises the outcomes of these di...
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South Sudan Somalia Horn of Africa and the Sahel Migration Conflict Economies

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